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Edgar Mitchell's Roswell claims

In a 2008 radio interview, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell said the Roswell crash was real and that governments had hidden the truth for 60 years.

2008 CE · 33.39, -104.52 · status: claim

The account

Coming from the sixth man to walk on the Moon, the remarks made headlines worldwide. Mitchell later said his information came from unnamed, since-deceased sources from the Roswell area, not from NASA.

The sceptical view

NASA said it was not involved in any cover-up and did not share his opinions; in 2014 Mitchell said he had never seen a UFO and that a worldwide cover-up was 'just speculation on my part'.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Edgar Mitchell
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